It amazes me how seemingly intelligent people fight God. The
beauty of God is that He does not force any one to believe. A person must
seek God, not the other way around. God desires us to serve Him. It is
voluntary. God leaves the choice up to us. God created free will. God is
not a spirit of slavery. It is not commanded that you must serve. There
are two choices, believe or do not believe.

It is obvious as morals are removed from society, society suffers.
Open your eyes. Quit blaming a God you say you do not believe exists. People
need to take responsibility for their own actions. Morals and decency must
take priority. It is time that we as a race quit whining and fighting each
others beliefs and take notice of the real problems we are facing.

The early Protestants and modern Calvinists would disagree: they tell
us that mankind is so depraved through Original Sin that we cannot recognize
the Calvinistic god on our own, and therefore must be fortunate enough
to have been hand-chosen by that god from the foundation of the earth and
subsequently enlightened by his saving grace.

You can't both be right, so who's right? and how are we supposed to
know? how do we verify that you or the others (or neither) are right?

The Calvinists seem to have a much stronger case, as far as the Bible
goes. Those who disagree with the Calvinists must resort to humanistic
sentiments in order to make their case, they cannot make it solely from
the Bible because it isn't there. So we're back to human reason, once again!

It is not commanded that you must serve.

Sure it is! We must believe in Christ, or we roast in hell! We must
believe in Mohammed's "Allah" or we get decapitated, and after
that, our corpse gets abused by having our fingers cut off -- and then
we burn in hell!

Regular or extra crispy?

Morals and decency must take priority. It is time that we as
a race quit whining and fighting each others beliefs and take notice of
the real problems we are facing.

You're fighting the wrong guy! I agree that morals are important, and
that is why I am developing and advocating the philosophy of Positive Atheism,
which is a proactive ethic whose target audience is the people who are
unconvinced by such railing as we see above.

I suggest you open your eyes and read a group's mission statement before
laying into people over things abouy which you know nothing -- but could find
out about very easily just by spending two or three minutes reading a simple
mission statement! Had you read our mission statement before you wrote
to us, you wouldn't have made this mistake.